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Mantissa (/ m æ n ˈ t ɪ s ə /) may refer to: Mantissa (logarithm) , the fractional part of the common (base-10) logarithm Significand (also commonly called mantissa), the significant digits of a floating-point number or a number in scientific notation
Mantissa is a novel by British author John Fowles published in 1982. It consists entirely of a presumably imaginary dialogue in a writer's head, between himself and an embodiment of the Muse Erato , after he wakes amnesiac in a hospital bed.
The significand [1] (also coefficient, [1] sometimes argument, [2] or more ambiguously mantissa, [3] fraction, [4] [5] [nb 1] or characteristic [6] [3]) is the first (left) part of a number in scientific notation or related concepts in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. For negative numbers, it does not include ...
In August 1992 Killing Time changed their name to Mantissa due to American and Japanese bands of that name. [1] The new name was chosen from the 1982 John Fowles novel, Mantissa. [1] In October 1992 they issued their debut album, Mossy God, (produced by Mantissa and Terry Date), on Red Eye Records / Polydor Records, which reached No. 47. [3]
Mentissa Eleonore Aziza (born 4 April 1999), known mononymously as Mentissa, is a Belgian singer and songwriter. [2] She is known for winning the first season of The Voice Kids in Flanders, and for her participation in the tenth season of The Voice : La plus belle voix.
The Mantissa is a series of twenty-five separate pieces of which the opening five deal directly with psychology. [15] The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics , of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light , and the final four with fate and providence . [ 15 ]
The part of the representation that contains the significant figures (1.30 or 1.23) is known as the significand or mantissa. The digits in the base and exponent ( 10 3 or 10 −2 ) are considered exact numbers so for these digits, significant figures are irrelevant.
John Robert Fowles (/ f aʊ l z /; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.